This walk starts in the Wiltshire metropolis of Warminster, but quickly leaves the urban area and heads up in the hills to explore more...

Over the years I have driven past the delightful Fonthill Lake but never stopped to take a closer look, so I resolved recently to rectify this and take a walk around the whole Fonthill Estate. The Fonthill Estate is some 9,000 acres in size and has been owned by the Morrison family since 1830. They have cultivated deep links with the county of Wiltshire in that time. Over the years a few Morrisons were Members of Parliament, and John Morrison, former MP for Salisbury was the

Artist David Alderslade suggested we visit this unique location in Folly Wood near Market Lavington.

King's Play Hill is a fascinating place, riddled with tumuli, a long barrow in a nearby field and steep sided hollows with terracettes....

By Simon Tesler - All images by Simon & Carey Tesler Many residents of Trowbridge and Southwick might not realise that there is a...

By Steve Dewey A recent post on the Warminster and District Memories Facebook page brought to my attention milestones in Sutton Veny and...

I had to go to Steeple Ashton today (where I took a photograph of the blind house) so on the way home I stopped to visit the substantial...

By Steve Dewey Introduction In this post I'm going to take you on a photographic trip along the Wylye valley. To do this we're going to...

There are many "Blind Houses" in Wiltshire, dating back to the 18th Century. The term is the local Wiltshire term for a village lock up,...

Following the little River Till as it takes its journey across Salisbury Plain to the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire.

This circular walk takes in the small Wiltshire villages of Sutton Veny and Tytherington, doing a circular loop which takes you high up...

Recently I did the same Wiltshire walk, 8 days apart. During the first walk, the sun broke through the clouds to provide contrasting...

In late October I spotted a window in the weather where the sun might shine for a few hours, so I drove across to Edington and parked...

Having already explored Oldbury Camp and the area around the Lansdowne monument on Cherhill Down, I wanted to take a look at Ranscombe...

This walk scrapes into Wiltshire by the skin of its teeth. In fact I parked my car in Hampshire but within 100 metres managed to escape...

By Paul Timlett If I had to choose my favourite part of Wiltshire, the Vale of Pewsey and its downs would be a serious contender. Its ancient history, the flora and fauna, the sense of remoteness in the hills, and above all the immense views – its charms are impossible to resist. Wansdyke and the Kennet and Avon Canal represent two very different periods of the vale’s past and, and arguably two totally different modes of transport. Wansdyke’s history and purpose is the subje

The hills around Warminster sit on the edge of the wide expanse of Salisbury Plain and contain an incredible amount of history. While...

A walk in the historic countryside around Castle Combe in Wiltshire

In late 2018 I released the first Hidden Wiltshire book. To my great surprise, it sold very well and generated quite a lot of local...

Furze Knoll is an enigma to me. It is such a unique, prominent wooded knoll, but it does not seem to have anything of historical...